Word: hipping
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...Trust No One." Each Sunday night at nine, the series would juggle the concepts of blind faith (the need to find meaning and pattern in the random events of the universe) and paranoia (which, as any neurotic would tell you, is just common sense accompanied by theremin music). Hip and weird, and reveling in the emotional voyeurism at the heart of any detective show, The X Files spanned the Bill Clinton Era - or, roughly, the time between the two attacks on the World Trade Center - when America's political and social life was so placid that we had to invent...
...work often cited as proof is So Was Born the Generation of '66. Painted in that year, it shows a young artist, in a red hip-length jacket, holding up a paintbrush like a peace offering amid a violent streetscape. In the background, graffiti from the Partai Komunis Indonesia (PKI) is scrawled across the walls. The painting's content is explicitly political. "[Sudjojono's] point is that all the artist needs is his paint and brush and he can take on the world," explains Kuala Lumpur gallery owner Valentine Willie. Putting the artist center stage also gave the work...
...part because there was a risk that voters might see the trip not as an audition but as a bold act of presumption, Obama spent much of the Iraq and Afghanistan portions of the trip joined at the hip by Democratic Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, a West Pointer, and Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, a Vietnam vet and onetime ally of McCain's. The sidemen, plus the images of combat-hardened troops greeting him, may have helped the campaign present Obama as a plausible Commander in Chief...
Frances Weeks, manager of a boutique in London's hip Notting Hill neighborhood, proudly holds up a dress by Italian designer Emilio Pucci. Such frocks usually come with a stratospheric price tag attached; she's selling this one for a mere $200. Oh, and how about those Prada evening shoes she's got priced at just $140? They'd usually set you back several hundred bucks. So what's the catch? Well, most of the chichi clothes, shoes and accessories on sale at this shop are ... well, preworn. Weeks' boutique is in fact an upscale version of the ubiquitous Oxfam...
...label can make a huge difference too, like Seattle's Sub Pop, which produced Nirvana's early recordings. Ultimately, it's the big national labels that cash in on local sounds. Primed by their success with Seattle, the record companies are now grazing hungrily in college towns, those intrinsically hip places where collective shoe preference may run the narrow gamut from Birkenstocks to Doc Martens but ears are all wide open. The academic triangle of Chapel Hill, Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina, boasts popular alternative bands like Superchunk, not to mention a label, Mammoth Records. Jay Faires, founder of Mammoth...